Shortly into the film Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury attributes his magnificent voice to four extra incisors: “extra teeth equals extra range.”
The dental endowment had gradually pushed his front teeth forward, causing a great deal of teasing (“Bucky”) when Freddie was a boy and teen, then known as Farrokh Bulsara. He hid them behind his hand and, later on, a mustache. But it never squelched his singing.
The Internet is overflowing with accounts of the transplendent Rami Malek preparing for his role as the four-octave frontman by slipping on a pair of customized prosthetic upper teeth to practice speaking and singing.
While Freddie’s extra teeth were unlikely due to a specific genetic disorder, at least one group of researchers has suggested an alternate biological explanation.
To continue reading go to Genetic Literacy Project, where this article first appeared.
The dental endowment had gradually pushed his front teeth forward, causing a great deal of teasing (“Bucky”) when Freddie was a boy and teen, then known as Farrokh Bulsara. He hid them behind his hand and, later on, a mustache. But it never squelched his singing.
The Internet is overflowing with accounts of the transplendent Rami Malek preparing for his role as the four-octave frontman by slipping on a pair of customized prosthetic upper teeth to practice speaking and singing.
While Freddie’s extra teeth were unlikely due to a specific genetic disorder, at least one group of researchers has suggested an alternate biological explanation.
To continue reading go to Genetic Literacy Project, where this article first appeared.